Colonies
The Rockstar Colony Has a New Home!
The caregiver for Kitty Farrell, the tripod cat, read about the Rockstar Colony losing their home. She came by yesterday and dropped off a cat food donation for them! Thank you! I’m always blown away by how much people care and want to help. By the way, Kitty Farrell is pretty much healed from her hind… Read more »
How to Win Friends and Influence People to Help with TNR
A friend told me that she successfully trapped a cat over the weekend, and Tree House’s BVDM Mac Lean Spay/Neuter Clinic informed her the cat was already microchipped and neutered last year. My friend lives a block from The Cell Phones Colony. This cat colony is much harder to TNR because of opposition from the main… Read more »
When an Outdoor Cat Colony Loses Their Home
So, the Rockstar Colony has lost their home. Literally. The owners sold off their three buildings and they’ve all been torn down. There’s just a huge hole in the ground for now. Last year I finished TNR’ing all seven cats for them. Since then, other neighbors told me two cats have died. I hope they took… Read more »
Breakfast can’t be late, even on Caturday
We woke up this morning to find Dash on the deck reminding us that it was way past his normally scheduled feeding time.
Happy National Feral Cat Day! Remembering the First TNR’d Cats In My Yard
Starting in 2004, I learned about TNR from Alley Cat Allies and trapped a few cats. They were mostly mother cats with their kittens, so I brought them inside to be socialized and admitted into shelters. Then in 2005, as I was trying to trap a very sick cat, I trapped Bobcat instead, and he… Read more »
Tips on Cleaning the Outdoor Cat Shelters for Winter
This is the time of year where my garage gets taken over by outdoor cat houses. This year we’re making another colony cat house for the cats in my yard. We also bought heating pads for all three shelters. In addition, I’m cleaning out all the cat shelters and adding new straw for their bedding,… Read more »
Trapping and Caring for a Colony Cat After Leg Amputation
Kitty Farrell is a TNR’d feral colony cat from the Sprockets Colony who showed up in her caretaker’s yard with her leg dragging behind her the other week. You could see the bone sticking out of her leg. The caretakers decided to use a drop trap ingeniously made out of a larger cage that they… Read more »
How To Make a Low-Cost Outdoor Cat Litter Box
My cat Mooha loves to check out everything I make for the outdoor cats, as I’ve blogged earlier this week when I was making some cat houses. I also made a quick and easy, low-cost outdoor cat litter box for the V Colony. The caretakers of that colony have about 15 TNR’d cats that that… Read more »
Trapping an Injured Feral Cat
A few weeks ago I met a woman on a Facebook neighborhood group because she was asking how to find a feral cat that went missing from her yard. It turned out she was a caretaker who has done TNR, trap-neuter-return, and her colony was just a few blocks away from my Joyce Division Colony…. Read more »